In the predictions of Reliable Change of parent - reported internalizing and externalizing child symptoms,
non-anxiety comorbidity could be classified as a classical suppressor variable.
Severity is strongly associated with more improvement when irrelevant variance in common with
non-anxiety comorbidity is removed, therefore researchers should consider removing the irrelevant variance of parent - reported pre-treatment overall severity when considering relations between non-anxious comorbidity and parent reported change in internalizing and externalizing problems.
Similar to Levy et al. we found no associations between the presence of
non-anxiety comorbidity and reductions of internalizing and externalizing parent - reported problems with anxiety - focused CBT.
MASC Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children; CBCL - Int Child Behavior Checklist, Internalizing Scale; ADIS - C / P Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule, Child & Parent; NAC
non-anxiety comorbidity; MASC, CBCL and ADIS - C / P recovery = 1, no recovery = 0;
Non-anxiety comorbidity and total comorbidity; present = 1, absent = 0; B = Logistic Coefficient; OR = Odds Ratio; Nagk R2 = Nagelkerke R2; Zero to five outliers were removed from a model;
We did find an effect of non-anxiety comorbid disorders on externalizing symptoms;
non-anxiety comorbidity did have a negative impact on change in externalizing symptoms in anxious children when suppressor effects were taken into account.
Pre-treatment
non-anxiety comorbidity added to the prediction of recovery when recovery was assessed with child reported anxiety symptoms.
Again, severity was entered in the first step and total comorbidity and
non-anxiety comorbidity respectively in the second step.
Not exact matches
(3) Does total and / or non-anxious
comorbidity predict Reliable Change in
non-anxiety symptoms (self - reported depressive symptoms and parent - reported externalizing symptoms) above and beyond overall severity?
At 6 months follow - up there was a slight increase of father - reported internalizing symptoms and mother - reported externalizing symptoms in the children with other
comorbidity, whereas children with one or more anxiety disorders and no
non-anxiety comorbid disorders still showed a decline in internalizing symptoms.